Assessment of the endothelial function with changed volume of brachial artery by menstrual cycle

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  • Shing-Hong Liu
  • Jia-Jung Wang
  • Da-Chuan Cheng
  • Chun-Hung Su
  • Tzu-Hsin Lin
چکیده

BACKGROUND The endothelial function has been proven to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, hypertension and heart failure. The flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) of the peripheral artery is an endothelium-dependent function. Brachial-artery ultrasound scanning is the popular method for evaluating FMD. However, good technical training on ultrasonography is required for the user to obtain high-quality data. Therefore, the goal of this study was to propose a new method which only used a sphygmomanometer cuff to occlude the blood flow and record the vascular volume waveform (Vwave). RESULTS We used this method to assess the FMD in the menstrual cycle for 26 volunteer females. All female subjects were evaluated two times (M: menstrual phase; F: luteal phase) in one menstrual cycle and for two cycles. In the first cycle, the FMD volume ratio in M was 101.9 ± 45.5 % and was higher in L, at 137.5 ± 62.1 % (p = 0.0032 versus M). In the second cycle, the FMD volume ratios in M and L were 91.4 ± 37.0 % and 124.0 ± 56.4 %, respectively (p < 0.001 vs. M). CONCLUSIONS Our results have confirmed those results in the study of Hametner et al. Blood pressure measurement and FMD assessment all used the same mechanic of digital blood pressure monitor, which makes our method suitable using at home.

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دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016